No, sorry you're not the only one who can argue and debate. You have quite a condescending tone though, no small wonder that "debating" is your forte. Let me form a rebuttal: to me, you seem to be an armchair philosopher who just wants to show off some mad skillz. The picture is completed by your last lines, showing that you don't actually have any debating skills. That is not debating, that is mere bashing and flamebaiting (onto which I will now bite, congrats).
You pose a good argument, based on evolutionary theory and the assumption that this god in question must be omnipotent and intelligent. But if this god is omnipotent, why does it follow evolutionary theory? Notice that omnipotence can also mean transcending logic itself. Debating god and aiming to win the argument is futile (see sibling post).
On to capitalization... I do know that small letters are a more recent invention, but I'm talking about the latin alphabet in use in modern languages. I know there are languages without the concept of capital letters, I speak and write such myself (Japanese and Korean). You say capital letters delimit sentences, and that's what I said, if you'll read my post again. Marking the start of a sentence with a capital letter delimits the sentence, a period does the same at the end. Remember that I'm talking about current style and usage here. Separating the sentence as a unit with the combination of [period + space + capital letter] distinguishes it from other similar units, making it easier for the human eye to distinguish that by using only [period + space]. This combination also distinguishes it from periods used in abbreviations.
It's not just about utility, it's also about aesthetics. Variance in height of the fypefaces makes it easier to understand the shape of the text. Your long blocks of texts look ugly to me, and most other people. What's the point of not making your texts look better and be easier to read? I can understand if it's laziness, because I do it too very often (this would include IRC conversations). But I never do it when writing more than one or two sentences of text, i.e. a paragraph or so, both for aesthetic and utilitarian reasons. Perhaps you're just rebelling?
In any case, if you weren't trolling in previous posts, you certainly are now.
All it is missing now is some form of automated, computer-based control.
Yes... you will release the connection control locks. Wideband, ultrawhite... The network is all, everywhere. Yeess... We are become one, merged benevolence, guide for all of humankind.
Uh, ok, sorry, just finished Deus Ex, the Helios ending..
As for your capitalization, the first letter of every sentece is capitalized for the same reason that an ethernet packet has a preamble: to be sure where it starts. Most humans don't read streams of texts, we read blocks of texts instead because it's more efficient. If you don't capitalize at least the first letter of a sentence, you make your texts inefficient and inconvenient to read. It's essentially an arbitratry choice against an established standard. Since your texts are a horror to read, I won't even bother to check if you've answered this point already, so I'll just put it shortly here:
Believing (having faith) or not believing in God(s)/a god is an arbitrary choice, since it's existence cannot be proven. Neither choice can be better or worse. Someone's choice in the matter is thus completely irrelevant to anyone else. The only problem is when someone uses their arbitrary choice to justify their actions, and that's what you should be arguing about.
what exactly gives you the right to use the copyrighted software?
The very fact that you are in possession of it. No copyright law is going to stop you from using it, however, you can be stopped from obtaining it legally. This is where the GPL gives you a right to get it/distribute it etc. etc.
That would be inside, then. Though it stays closed only with a magnetic lock, so a gun would be fairly easy to whip out in case you need to rob someone.
Yes, violent crimes, though I'd say it moves the violent crimes into the prison. But more to the point, what about all those who are incarcerated for non-violent crimes? Drug abuse?
Yes, but those 220 Megaeuro won't be just to study Earth's global warming from venus, it's to study Venus. And, hey, maybe get some insights on how a planet can warm up as a bonus!
I have my wallet, keys, and phone in my pants' pockets, optionally in a jacket pocket for quick access. The rest (notepads, iRiver HD-player, clamshell zaurus, generic charger 3-12V) goes in this bag. The pda goes in an inside pocket, the mp3 player in middle flap pocket with the remote control clipped on outside, the charger-thing goes in the bottom pocket. All papers, notebooks, and extras go inside in the main pocket (a bit more than A5-size). The top pocket is for random small stuff. If anything bigger needs to be carried, I use my venerable hands to do it (shock!).
Yes, even instant noodles are better if you make them yourself. I've had the opportunity to make a pack myself, and fry them into a chicken-flavoured niceness, without any preservatives.
If we're talking about the pre-packaged, instant kind, then yes. However, these are almost, but not completely unlike the ramen you get in a good ramen restaurant. This is because the noodles are but a small part of the food: the actual dish is in the soup and what things are put in it, and every restaurant have their own way of making it.
Ctrl-z would get pressed, and 'reset' would get typed.
Besides, telnetting to a port is useful for testing and debugging. I tend to telnet to port 80 of a host, then type GET / HTTP/1.0 in order to get it's headers, if I don't happen to have a quicker way to do it.
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You pose a good argument, based on evolutionary theory and the assumption that this god in question must be omnipotent and intelligent. But if this god is omnipotent, why does it follow evolutionary theory? Notice that omnipotence can also mean transcending logic itself. Debating god and aiming to win the argument is futile (see sibling post).
On to capitalization... I do know that small letters are a more recent invention, but I'm talking about the latin alphabet in use in modern languages. I know there are languages without the concept of capital letters, I speak and write such myself (Japanese and Korean). You say capital letters delimit sentences, and that's what I said, if you'll read my post again. Marking the start of a sentence with a capital letter delimits the sentence, a period does the same at the end. Remember that I'm talking about current style and usage here. Separating the sentence as a unit with the combination of [period + space + capital letter] distinguishes it from other similar units, making it easier for the human eye to distinguish that by using only [period + space]. This combination also distinguishes it from periods used in abbreviations.
It's not just about utility, it's also about aesthetics. Variance in height of the fypefaces makes it easier to understand the shape of the text. Your long blocks of texts look ugly to me, and most other people. What's the point of not making your texts look better and be easier to read? I can understand if it's laziness, because I do it too very often (this would include IRC conversations). But I never do it when writing more than one or two sentences of text, i.e. a paragraph or so, both for aesthetic and utilitarian reasons. Perhaps you're just rebelling?
In any case, if you weren't trolling in previous posts, you certainly are now.
Mods: mark parent as troll.
Yes... you will release the connection control locks. Wideband, ultrawhite... The network is all, everywhere. Yeess... We are become one, merged benevolence, guide for all of humankind.
Uh, ok, sorry, just finished Deus Ex, the Helios ending..
Because if you don't, you're inconsiderate.
As for your capitalization, the first letter of every sentece is capitalized for the same reason that an ethernet packet has a preamble: to be sure where it starts. Most humans don't read streams of texts, we read blocks of texts instead because it's more efficient. If you don't capitalize at least the first letter of a sentence, you make your texts inefficient and inconvenient to read. It's essentially an arbitratry choice against an established standard. Since your texts are a horror to read, I won't even bother to check if you've answered this point already, so I'll just put it shortly here:
Believing (having faith) or not believing in God(s)/a god is an arbitrary choice, since it's existence cannot be proven. Neither choice can be better or worse. Someone's choice in the matter is thus completely irrelevant to anyone else. The only problem is when someone uses their arbitrary choice to justify their actions, and that's what you should be arguing about.
I wonder, how do I open a symlink in *nix then, without getting the target instead?
in a similar vein...
Hey, don't mock him, he used "Unix".
The very fact that you are in possession of it. No copyright law is going to stop you from using it, however, you can be stopped from obtaining it legally. This is where the GPL gives you a right to get it/distribute it etc. etc.
That would be inside, then. Though it stays closed only with a magnetic lock, so a gun would be fairly easy to whip out in case you need to rob someone.
There is balance in the universe after all...
Yes, violent crimes, though I'd say it moves the violent crimes into the prison. But more to the point, what about all those who are incarcerated for non-violent crimes? Drug abuse?
Except that prison is a lousy way to achieve deterrance, see your sibling poster.
Yes, but those 220 Megaeuro won't be just to study Earth's global warming from venus, it's to study Venus. And, hey, maybe get some insights on how a planet can warm up as a bonus!
I have my wallet, keys, and phone in my pants' pockets, optionally in a jacket pocket for quick access. The rest (notepads, iRiver HD-player, clamshell zaurus, generic charger 3-12V) goes in this bag. The pda goes in an inside pocket, the mp3 player in middle flap pocket with the remote control clipped on outside, the charger-thing goes in the bottom pocket. All papers, notebooks, and extras go inside in the main pocket (a bit more than A5-size). The top pocket is for random small stuff. If anything bigger needs to be carried, I use my venerable hands to do it (shock!).
These shall henceforth be referred to as Heisenbulbs.
Truly an experience that rivals System Shock 2. I might just find some code to jump over that level next time I play Thief III.
It's very good at that.
Also, try solving some of the super-difficult ones.
What government are you talking about? The US government? The rest of us are talking about Europe.
Hey, we can just move to antarctica. That thing is going to pop up like a cork!
Yes, even instant noodles are better if you make them yourself. I've had the opportunity to make a pack myself, and fry them into a chicken-flavoured niceness, without any preservatives.
If we're talking about the pre-packaged, instant kind, then yes. However, these are almost, but not completely unlike the ramen you get in a good ramen restaurant. This is because the noodles are but a small part of the food: the actual dish is in the soup and what things are put in it, and every restaurant have their own way of making it.
Besides, telnetting to a port is useful for testing and debugging. I tend to telnet to port 80 of a host, then type GET / HTTP/1.0 in order to get it's headers, if I don't happen to have a quicker way to do it.
Moreover, rent-a-coder sounds like programming prostitution, where you don't know who's doing what, and what bugs you might catch.
Yes, yes. I fully comprehend. But a good idea might be to leave the maintainable code in there, but in comments, as a reference.
Why computer Science? - Because it's interesting right now.
Why now? - Because now is the last time to get some fun out of it before the entire field goes to hell.